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• Southampton. Fluoride in water: protesters plan new legal battle

  CAMPAIGNERS against water fluoridation in Hampshire are planning a fresh legal battle in the courts, the Daily Echo can reveal. In the latest salvo of their long running battle, Hampshire Against Fluoridation (HAF) claim they have found a loophole which could block plans to add fluoride to tap water. Despite losing a legal challenge last […]

• Mackay: Council faces tough decision with fluoride

  IT’S been two years since fluoride officially started pouring into Mackay’s water supply and the contentious issue has managed to hold on by the skin of its ugly teeth. Yesterday, the Cairns Regional Council chose to halt the flow of fluoride in their water supplies. A Cairns Regional Council spokeswoman was reported as saying, “If […]

• Southampton. VIDEO: Demonstrators protest against fluoride in water

  WAVING placards and shouting their slogans, more than a hundred people made their message loud and clear: no to water fluoridation. Demonstrators were gathering outside the Guildhall Square in Southampton this afternoon as part of their long running battle against plans to add the chemical to drinking water in Southampton, Eastleigh, Totton, Netley and Rownhams. […]

• Nolan calls for immedaite ban on water flouridation

  Cllr Peggy Nolan wants an immediate ban on the flouridation of drinking water in Ireland. She states that we shouldn’t have to wait until the forum on flouridation concludes in September. “At present Ireland stands alone in Europe as the only country to insist under law that drinking water contains fluoride,” she points out. “Seventy […]

• Kildare Doctor Challenges State over Fluoridation

  High Court proceedings were issued on Friday challenging the government’s 40-year-old fluoridation policy. Dr Andrew Rynne, a Co Kildare family doctor, issued proceeding against the Minister for Health, Eastern Regional Health Authority, Kildare Co Council, the Attorney General and the state. Some dentists have also stepped up their opposition to fluoridation. The 15-member Irish Dentists […]

• Dentists to sue over continued fluoridation of drinking water

  A GROUP of Irish dentists are to sue the Minister for Health, Micheál Martin, for continuing to fluoridate drinking water. The dentists, who are breaking ranks with the Irish Dental Association, plan to lodge papers with the High Court after handing a letter of protest into the Dáil on Friday. The move comes as the […]

• Doctor to sue state over water fluoridation

  A Co Kildare family doctor is to issue High Court proceedings against the state over its water fluoridation policy. Dr Andrew Rynne claims that the Department of Health is acting unconstitutionally by forcing people to accept mass medication without their permission. The Irish Medical Board (IMB) will be cited as a co-defendant. Three-quarters of Irish […]

• Drinking ourselves to death

  Ten county councils and seven urban district councils in Ireland are now officially opposed to the fluoridation of drinking water, but remain statutorily duty-bound to continue with the practice whether they like it or not. The legislation that continues to force their hands in this respect is called the Health (fluoridation of water) Supplies Act […]

• Louth County Council: Fluoride question will ‘come back to haunt us’

  ‘ THIS WILL come back to haunt us. We are burying our head in the sand,’ Cllr Jim Loughran warned at the monthly meeting of Louth County Council. He had tabled a question asking ‘for what purpose is fluoride being added to the domestic water supply in the country,’ and said that while he noted […]

• Consumers’ Association of Ireland Calls for End to Fluoridation

  The Government should allow consumers to choose whether or not they want fluoride in their drinking water, the Consumers’ Association of Ireland has said. Mr Michael Kilcoyne, chairman of the association, said his organisation was eagerly awaiting the results of the Forum on Fluoridation‘s deliberations. In the meantime, the Consumers’ Association has decided to make […]